FREEPORT — Containers of sediment soon will connect Freeport with a Civil War-era gunboat sunken 146 years ago in Galveston Bay… Source: The Facts, November 29, 2009;
Nearly 28 years after Congress authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to deepen the Delaware River’s main shipping channel, the only thing about the project that has deepened is the controversy… Read More: Delaware Online
New Delhi: The government on Thursday said the 5 million tonnes (mt) per year liquefied natural gas terminal at Dabhol has achieved mechanical completion and is likely to be commissioned in the fourth quarter… Source: DNA, November 27, 2009;
The quantity dredged is about 4 million cubic metres and the contract value is about Rs.29.7 crores… Source: The Hindu, November 28, 2009
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s Environmental Protection Department (EPD) and the Offshore Projects Division of the Saudi Aramco’s Northern Area Projects Department (OPD/NAPD) have sponsored a coral relocation project in the Arabian Gulf… Source: Offshore, November 25, 2009;
The government of Maldives has obtained a loan of 34.5 million Euro from a Dutch bank to develop harbors in three islands… Source: Miadhu News, November 26, 2009
Global Real Estate Development Company (Gredco), a Bahraini developer, has invited companies to bid in early December for major dredging works… Source: MEED, November 26, 2009/GREDCO
According to MEED (Middle East Business Intelligence) Bahrain’s local real estate developer Manara Developments has awarded US-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company an estimated BD10m ($26m) contract… Source: MEED, November 24, 2009 / Gulf Daily News, June 29, 2oo9
Wrightsville Beach could get sand in its stocking this Christmas… Source: Lumina News, November 25, 2009
The dredging of Melbourne’s shipping channels will continue for another six months and return every five years despite the controversial project being declared complete… Source: Herald Sun, November 25, 2009;
Subtech has once again made history when they removed the last section of the sub-aqueous tunnel from beneath the Durban harbour mouth. This is the first time that a sub-aqueous tunnel has been removed in its entirety… Source: Subtech
WASHINGTON — Manson Construction Co., Seattle, won a $3,751,000 federal contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah, Ga., for maintenance dredging. Place of performance will be at Charleston Entrance Channel, Charleston county, S.C… Source: Targeted News Service, November 24, 2009
Work on the deepening of Liepaja Port has begun, LETA was informed by the Liepaja Special Economic Zone’s public relations specialist Liga Ratniece-Kadege. The work is being carried out by Belgian company Dredging International N.V… Source: Baltic Zone, November 25, 2009;
THE controversial dredging of Port Phillip Bay is complete, at a cost of $969 million… Source: Herald Sun, November 25, 2009
